(23 Sep 2022)
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Indianapolis - 23 September 2022
1. Various exteriors of Women's Med abortion clinic
2. Mid inside procedure room
ANNOTATION: With Indiana's abortion ban temporarily on hold, Women's Med and other abortion clinics resumed seeing patients on Friday.
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3. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Katie McHugh, abortion provider:
"This judge is responding to the need of people, the very real in-the-moment need of the people in Indiana for health care."
4. Various inside clinic
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5. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Katie McHugh, abortion provider:
"people who get abortions, people who choose an abortion as their choice for their pregnancy, choose abortion because of some reason. And most of the time, we know from from literature, most of the time that is because of finances. Most of the time when people find themselves pregnant and can't, can't conceive of continuing the pregnancy, it is because they can't conceive of affording to expand their family."
6. Close of recovery room sign
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7. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Katie McHugh, abortion provider:
"I feel incredibly relieved that we are able to provide health care again. It's also a stressful time simply given that because we banned abortion more than a week ago now in Indiana, it is a time where we're having to rehire or newly hire staff in order to provide this medical care."
8. Wide inside procedure room
STORYLINE:
With Indiana's abortion ban temporarily on hold, Women's Med and other Indiana abortion clinics resumed seeing patients on Friday while anticipating further change amid mercurial abortion access in the country following the U.S. Supreme Court's June decision overturning Roe v. Wade.
Hours after Owen County Judge Kelsey Hanlon on Thursday issued a preliminary injunction against Indiana's abortion ban, the state filed a promised appeal and motion asking the state's high court to take up the case.
Dr. Katie McHugh, an Indiana abortion provider, says "This judge is responding to the need of people, the very real in the moment need of the people in Indiana for health care. She is also responding to what she believes is a Constitutional protection to privacy, and this health care decision falls within that Constitutional protection."
Under Indiana's ban, which has exceptions, abortion clinics would have lost their licenses and been prohibited from providing any abortion care, leaving such services solely to hospitals or outpatient surgical centers owned by hospitals.
The ban also only permits abortions in cases of rape and incest before 10-weeks post-fertilization; to protect the life and physical health of the patient; or if a fetus is diagnosed with a lethal anomaly.
Hanlon wrote "there is reasonable likelihood that this significant restriction of personal autonomy offends the liberty guarantees of the Indiana Constitution" and that the clinics will prevail in the lawsuit. The order prevents the state from enforcing the ban pending a trial on the merits of the lawsuit.
With Indiana's law on hold, bans on abortion at any point in pregnancy are in place in 12 Republican-led states. In Wisconsin, clinics have stopped providing abortions amid litigation over whether an 1849 ban is in effect. Georgia bans abortions once fetal cardiac activity can be detected and Florida and Utah have bans that kick in after 15 and 18 weeks gestation, respectively.
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